Lead Sourcing Specialist at GE - General Electric

Job Number: 2729192
Business: GE Global Operations
Business Segment: Global Operations Middle East & Africa

Essential Responsibilities

• Collaborate with source commodity teams by translating the business requirements (SOWs) as input to the commodity strategy
• Lead the execution of the [local or regional] sourcing strategy; deliver a competitive advantage by driving the strategic supplier initiatives, selection, development, and consolidation to ensure optimal business performance.
• Partner with key business stakeholders to ensure sourced material and services meet the needs of the business
• Collaborate with source commodity teams to ensure supplier quality and delivery performance needs are met and improvement strategies are implemented
• Collaborate with commodity leaders to execute negotiation on specifically assigned commodities
• Execute across the purchase base, with full accountability for meeting deflation (savings), usage, cash and preferred supplier targets.
• Own the day-to-day execution of the transactional procurement process including approving a PO. Convert purchase requisitions into purchase orders and manage the purchase orders until closed. (not in our end state but will eventually go Source to own)
• Develop & Lead site specific projects agreed to with the Business Sourcing leader.
• Understand and ensure business specific regulatory requirements, global ops compliance, and quality, delivery and cost expectations are met.
• Manage the operational relationship with suppliers.
• Work Cross-functionally with Global Ops and business teams to effectively implement business solutions.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or college or high school degree and at least 7 years of work experience in sourcing.
• Minimum of 3 years work experience in sourcing or procurement
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
• English proficiency

Desired Characteristics:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Sourcing or Business
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated analytical abilities, problem solving & negotiation skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage large projects
• Strong influencing & collaboration skills
• Proven ability to build rapport across the organization